UK Troops In Iraq Made Britain A Terror Target

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There is ‘no doubt’ that support for the US-led war on Iraq ‘puts the UK more at risk’ of terrorist attack. This is one of...

P&O SACKS 800! – RMT instructs crews to stay on board and refuse to...

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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

Teachers Need Fully Funded Above Inflation Pay Rises!

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UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...
Civil servants lobbying MPs last month against poverty pay

‘COMPENSATE LOW PAID NOW’ – Prentis warns Brown

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‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

Stockholm Youth Uprising

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YOUTH in Stockholm have risen up in anger over the last three days and faced police attacks and racist abuse, following the police shooting...

GPs HIT BACK AT PM MAY!

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DOCTORS leaders yesterday hit back at PM May’s threat to cut GP funding to surgeries that did not open for longer hours and offer...

Parliament can stop UK leaving EU – says shadow chancellor John McDonnell

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PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...

Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!

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THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Bakers Union in Manchester supporting the Young Socialists 248-mile March for Jobs from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared

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‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

Mass Delhi rally called against power privatisation!

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WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...

Children In The Besieged Gaza Strip Live In Terror

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THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in ‘constant terror due to Israeli bombardment’. UNICEF spokesperson...

WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...

Tories Big Council Losses!

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LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

‘IRRESPONSIBLE AND RASH’ – Primary Academies plan slammed

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TEACHERS and heads yesterday condemned Cameron’s announcement that 400 ‘failing’ state primary schools will be forced to become privately-run academies. National Union of Teachers General...
Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...

£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak

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THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

Labour will keep refugees on barges says Kinnock – while Braverman threatens lawyers

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A LABOUR government would continue with the reactionary Tory policy of incarcerating refugees aboard barges moored offshore, according to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock...
Student nurses demanding their bursaries be maintained demonstrated outside Richmond House on December 2nd

Tory Cuts Have Caused NHS Nursing Crisis!

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THE Royal College of Nursing yesterday slammed government cuts over the NHS staffing crisis. Janet Davies, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary said: ‘The RCN...
Demonstrators condemn Israel outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday evening

HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release

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ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...

Johnson blasts ‘gloomsters’

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THE NEW PM Boris Johnson, making his first speech outside the doors of 10 Downing Street yesterday at 4pm, denounced the ‘pessimists at home...

Labour vows to fight for Remain!

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LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...
Demonstrators insist that those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno and its aftermath should face jail sentences

‘Those responsible must be jailed’ say Grenfell survivors

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‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...

NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut

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Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...

Bank of England strike ballot

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STAFF at the Bank of England yesterday started voting in a strike ballot as Unite, the union representing staff at the bank called on...

‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff

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IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...

Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square

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OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...

HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!

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STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...
The picket line at Dewsbury District Hospital yesterday morning. The workers are determined to defeat management attacks

Yorks Hospital Workers Strike To Defend Jobs

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five-hundred clerical and administration workers at three hospitals in West Yorkshire came out on strike on Sunday. They are striking for five-days against threats of...

‘Intervene to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza!’– Hamas urges the Muslim nations

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HAMAS has urged Arab and Muslim nations to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s resumed assault on Gaza, stressing that regional powers bear a ‘direct...

Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’

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SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...

NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...

Junior doctors determined to win their pay battle!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...

RCM, Unison strike ballot!

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FOR the first time in history midwives are uniting with other health workers to ballot for strike action, in an escalating fight over...

Parliamentary Democracy RIP! – Stewart wants a ‘Citizens Assembly’

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BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

Youth In Poverty!

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THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...

Halt Israel’s genocidal Gaza displacement plan!

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HAMAS has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to seize full control of Gaza, calling it an extension of his ‘genocidal and displacement...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...
BMA delegates at their Annual Representative Meeting applaud BMA acting chairman Everington after his address yesterday

‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan

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The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...

Israeli genocide in Gaza tops 35,000!

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THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...
Teachers marching on a TUC demonstration against Tory policies

Children are arriving hungry every day at school!

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THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...
The anti-union laws that Tory Premier Heath introduced were smashed when the mass movement for a general strike forced the release of five imprisoned dockers – picture shows BERNIE STEER and VIC TURNER being liberated from Pentonville Prison

POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...

‘We can’t allow the City to sink beneath the waves’

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‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...
The platform at yesterday’s press conference given by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, including his cousins Patricia da Silva Armani (second from left) and VIvian Figueiredo (third from left)

Hold The Police To Account Demands de Menezes Family

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THERE will always be doubts in the minds of Jean Charles de Menezes’ relatives about why there is no CCTV evidence of when armed...